Medical Education
Cross-Cultural Aspects of Disease & Loss
Women & Life-Threatening Illness & Grief
Children & Illness - Children & Loss
Death in the Arts & Humanities
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Periodicals

WOMEN AND LIFE-THREATENING  ILLNESS & GRIEF

DEAR AUNT X AND UNCLE Y: How to Ask for Help
Marion Cohen

SAMPLE CHAPTERS: The Commitment; Emotional Support; Admitting You Need Help: Overcoming Obstacles; You Have a Right to Help; About Community Resources & Health-Care Systems; About the Classifieds; Things that Worked: The Mighty Meeting, Ways They Can Help, After the Meeting, Staying in Touch; To Professionals; Help Begets Help.

2005 LC#:96-08472 ISBN 0-930194-61-6, Paper, $11.95 Download Order Form

WOMEN FACING LOSS: DISEASE, BEREAVEMENT & EMOTIONAL RESPONSE
Margot Tallmer, et al., Editors

Several life-threatening diseases only affect women, and special sensitivities are needed to deal with their problems. Reveals how many medical therapies result in grief reactions related to body image and culturally determined concepts of femininity. Chapters on pregnancy loss and infertility are also included. And, since females generally live longer than their husbands, special attention is paid to the problems of aging & widowed women. Dr. Tallmer is Professor Emeritus ofthe Brookdale Center on Aging, Hunter College, N.Y.

1996 140 pp. ISBN 0-930194-40-3543, Paper, $16.95 Download Order Form

BEYOND LOSS: A Practical Guide Through Grief to a Meaningful Life
Lilly Singer, Margaret Sirot, and Susan Rodd

Though each author is a working professional, she has also survived the loss of an intimate companion, and so the advice offered has been tested in the cauldron of each one's own bereavement.

"A welcome addition to the field. ..both pragmatic & compassionate." Rabbi Earl Grollman, author, Talking About Death.

1988 SBN 0-93014-51-9 LC 88-14882 162 pp., Cloth, $15.95 Download Order Form

HELPING EACH OTHER IN WIDOWHOOD
Dr. Phyllis Silverman, et al.

By the pioneer who established the concepts at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Silverman is Professor Emeritus of Harvard Medical School

1975 212pp. ISBN 0-930194-80-2 LC 74-1284, Cloth, $8.95 Download Order Form

COUNTING TO ZERO: Poems on Repeated Miscarriage
Marion Cohen

Cohen is a feminist, artist, college professor (in higher mathematics!), and a mother of four who has found the time and energy to handle the conti-nual stress of lost pregnancies. Yet she still maintains a semblance of sanity, wit, and humor. "... will help parents get in touch with those feelings they have not yet been able to articulate." Sister Jane Marie, SHARE Newsletter.

1989 ISBN 0-93014-18-7 95pp., Paper, $9.95 Download Order Form

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